Normal people expect rent increases, everything goes up.The TWO biggest things that ensure a buy and hold investor a brighter financial future is knowing that over the long term your mortgage on the property will stay the same but the rent you bring in will go up.

Making the unit look bigger or brighter in photos doesn't always servce.

it can be as simple as subway tiles with a strip of glass mosaic running through and it gives a higher end appearance to the kitchen while only costing a couple hundred bucks to do.they make led under cabinet lights that you simply touch by hand and they attach with a magnet so they can even be pulled off to use like a flashlight.  

Click on flash light....Hello Boa!

Its a process, but I know there are much brighter days in not only my future, buy yours as well.

Turn on water have someone with flash light check.

Places like perhaps Detroit, Atlanta, pats of Ohio and Las Vegas (with very bad unemployment) maybe the local exception.Personally, as land developer, I am waiting until Sept/Oct to be 100% certain to see if this newer and brighter market is sustainable.

I hope there will be brighter days and more pleasant conversation than that of Weirdos in Florida!

Hope you can come back soon, the city and the beach are as beatiful as always and things look brighter after the tough times we had 4-5 years ago which probably you read on the newspapers.

A landlord starter tool kit or case, however, for the DIY set could be handy and lead to good co-branding opportunities with the likes of Home Depot/Lowes, etc: flashlight, bit set, hammer, adjustable wrench, Home Depot 123 book, etc.,1 percent of profits donated to Habitat for Humanity or Colorado's Bridge House.